This Week In Sales: 3DS Rumble Blast

As previously reported, Nintendo 3DS sales received a nice boost last week, following the 40% price cut on the system in Japan. The 3DS, which went from 25,000 yen to 15,000 yen, sold a little over 196,000 units during the week. Accompanying it was Pokémon Rumble Blast, debuting at over 86,000 units.

Well based on where and how many 3DS titles are in the chart, I guess the high sales of the hardware wont last long. Barely any 3DS software moved considering the 198K buyers.

Uta-no prince sama though, nice! I would have got it too, even just for Ittoki Otoya.

xflame10

Mr. Positive aren’t we?

puchinri

Well, there are five 3DS titles on there and one in the second spot. I thought that was good enough. But we’ll see how future software does. Most people may have bought their 3DS early, but are waiting for other titles.

The only thing I’m really surprised about is that Star Fox didn’t do better.

mikanko

That’s kinda disappointing. I hope it doesn’t bode ill for the future of Star Fox games being rail shooters.

Suicunesol

The heck are you talking about, Tsuntsun-chan?

That’s more than a 500% increase in LoZ:OoC sales compared to last week. Pokemon Black and White also got a 25% increase in sales, putting it back in the top 20 chart, suggesting that some were waiting to buy it with a 3DS. All other 3DS games got positive boosts, too. And I won’t even mention Rumble Blast. That’s definite movement, even if it’s only for this week.

http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

But PKMN BLK and WHT are DS games, for a company focused on getting 3DS hardware and software selling, that is not advantageous if it only sells to people because it can play last generation software.

Percentages are deceptive and concluding that seems odd, considering we have no clue if people just waited for LoZ:OoC because they were waiting for money or that retailers may have dropped prices on 3DS software down for the week. Rumble Blast didnt break 0.1mln sales, so its isnt really worth mentioning.

http://twitter.com/Linka13 Linka

Actually, didn’t one of the developers outright say that he wanted people to play Pokemon Black and White on their 3DS, which is why they made the Pokedex 3D?

Suicunesol

PKMN BLK and WHT have additional features when played on 3DS. Not very many, mind you, but the 3DS support is there. I also might attribute the B&W increase to the release of Rumble Blast. The release of a Pokemon game (even a spin-off) results in the popularity of Pokemon rising as a whole, resulting in an increase in Pokemon sales across the board. This is just a hypothesis, though.

I will admit that you are right–percentages are deceptive. However, they’re still positive across the board, meaning that more are selling. And it’s no coincidence that it’s in the same week as the 3DS’s price drop.

I also want to mention that Pokemon games are often a different kind of beast. Instead of immediately selling high numbers and falling off the charts quickly, they tend to be the slow and steady sellers. I’m willing to bet that Rumble Blast isn’t down yet. Not by a long shot.

http://twitter.com/Linka13 Linka

I am seriously shocked that Pokemon didn’t break 100,000+ at the least.

It looks adorable. :<

http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

I do not think a non mothership PKMN game even appeals to less than one tenth of owners of any systems its been on. 0.1mln is a bit too much for 1.5mln users.

SetzerGabbiani

If it was a main Pokemon game, it would have sold at least 500,000.

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/members/55321.html FinalArcadia

Epic Mickey at number 10, huh? That seems really strange.

But wow, if Nintendo had only had a Pokemon game ready at the 3DS launch, I wonder if initial sales of the system would’ve been higher. Maybe Nintendo should keep that in mind for the Wii U.

z_merquise

Hmm, Queen’s Gate was no longer in the top 20. I wonder how that game is doing right now in terms of sales.

Queen’s Gate is the game I’m playing currently (I’m at stage 24 so far, I read that it had 45+ stages) and really, the game is great. Gameplay mechanic is simple to understand but it’s also got depth in it. But what attracted me there is seeing my favorite female characters from different games fighting together. There’s also lot’s of beautiful artwork that you can unlock too. The naughty bits are more like a bonus for me.

http://twitter.com/nikochanr3 niko

Can you describe Queens Gate, what kind of game it is, and if lack of english is an issue?

z_merquise

Queen’s Gate: Spiral Chaos is a cross-over strategy-RPG game from Banpresto (same developers of the Super Robot Taisen series) and it include girls from popular fighting games like Soulcalibur, Samurai Shodown, Guilty Gear, Blazblue, Tekken and Fatal Fury/KOF. There were also anime shows included here (Seikon no Qwaser, Samurai Girls and Demon King Daimao) but I’m not familiar of those shows to be honest.

I also can’t read Japanese (only know katakana and hiragana letters) but I played Super Robot Taisen games since PS1 so I’m pretty used in playing Japanese S-RPGs. But like I mentioned in the previous post, the mechanics were not really complicated and you can learn it in time. But if you have difficulty in it you can always refer to GameFAQS. I found their guides for this game (and for the previous game, Queen’s Blade) very helpful.

PrinceHeir

any Monster Hunter in the game will sell :)

Phoenix_Apollo

So, Capcom really could just combine Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Monster Hunter Diary/G if they wanted to bring it to the west on the PS3, right? That would make the most sense, since they don’t seem to want it on the PSP.

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